{"id":1839,"date":"2013-03-31T17:03:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T23:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2013-03-31T23:00:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T05:00:43","slug":"former-reporter-amber-lyon-exposes-massive-censorship-at-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/?p=1839","title":{"rendered":"Former Reporter Amber Lyon Exposes Massive Censorship At CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Krieger<\/strong>
Liberty Blitzkrieg.com<\/a>
Sept 10, 2012<\/p>\n

The Amber Lyon story is just the latest in a series of articles that expose the total Joseph Goebbels like censorship rampant in mainstream media today.\u00a0 The first one I posted several weeks ago exposed how\u00a0the NY Times basically just regurgitates whatever government officials tell them<\/a>, while the other showcased how an\u00a0NPR reporter covering D.C. had to leave and do her own thing out of frustration<\/a>.\u00a0 This is precisely why alternative media sites are taking off.\u00a0 They provide the only outlets left for genuine journalism.<\/p>\n

So back to Amber.\u00a0 Back in March 2011, CNN sent a four person team to Bahrain to cover the Arab Spring.\u00a0 Once there, the crew was the subject of extreme intimidation amongst other things, but they were able to record some fantastic footage.\u00a0 As Glenn Greenwald of the UK\u2019s Guardian writes in his blockbuster article from today:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the segment, Lyon interviewed activists as they explicitly described their torture at the hands of government forces, while family members recounted their relatives\u2019 abrupt disappearances. She spoke with government officials justifying the imprisonment of activists. And the segment featured harrowing video footage of regime forces shooting unarmed demonstrators, along with the mass arrests of peaceful protesters. In sum, the early 2011 CNN segment on Bahrain presented one of the starkest reports to date of the brutal repression embraced by the US-backed regime.<\/em><\/p>\n

Despite these accolades, and despite the dangers their own journalists and their sources endured to produce it, CNN International (CNNi) never broadcast the documentary. Even in the face of numerous inquiries and complaints from their own employees inside CNN, it continued to refuse to broadcast the program or even provide any explanation for the decision. To date, this documentary has never aired on CNNi.<\/p>\n

Having just returned from Bahrain, Lyon says she \u201csaw first-hand that these regime claims were lies, and I couldn\u2019t believe CNN was making me put what I knew to be government lies into my reporting.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Lyon\u2019s crew returned from Bahrain, CNN had no correspondents regularly reporting on the escalating violence. In emails to her producers and executives, Lyon repeatedly asked to return to Bahrain. Her requests were denied, and she was never sent back. She thus resorted to improvising coverage by interviewing activists via Skype in an attempt, she said, \u201cto keep Bahrain in the news\u201d.<\/p>\n

In March 2012, Lyon was laid off from CNN as part of an unrelated move by the network to outsource its investigative documentaries.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this point,\u201d Lyon said, \u201cI look at those payments as dirty money to stay silent. I got into journalism to expose, not help conceal, wrongdoing, and I\u2019m not willing to keep quiet about this any longer, even if it means I\u2019ll lose those payments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amber Lyon, I salute you.<\/p>\n

Please forward this post to everyone you know.\u00a0 I for one want to live in a country with some real and free press.\u00a0 Not some CIA propaganda arm that pretends to be a reliable source of news.<\/p>\n

Read Greenwald\u2019s excellent article\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This article was written by Michael Krieger and published at\u00a0libertyblitzkrieg.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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